The agreement between Complutense University and Google has allowed a large-scale digitization project of the complutense collections out of copyright. Digitization project steps & process. (tags: googlebooks bibliothek spanien)
Debatte voller Missverstndnisse. Bei allem, was wir tun, fragen wir uns: Wie knnen wir den Leuten nutzen? Das ist offensichtl. Selbst fr unsere Kritiker. Niemand beh., wir wrden irgendwem schaden. (tags: googlebooks)
Tina Guenther: VG Wort bittet mit dem Hinweis auf das Google-Books-Settlement die Autoren urhberrechtlich geschtzter Werke um die bertragung zahlreicher Rechte und Ansprche. Worum geht es dabei? (tags: openaccess googlebooks urheberrecht)
DIE ZEIT: Verlage, die ihre Bcher von Google vermarkten lassen, machen oft die Erfahrung, dass auch die Umstze mit gedruckten Bchern steigen. (tags: googlebooks artikel)
Daniel Leisegang: weltweite Bibliotheksbestnde entweder in die Hnde Googles (Monopolisierung) oder aber Einsetze fr einen mglichst freien Zugang zum Wissen dieser Welt. (tags: googlebooks openaccess politik)
Ldt alle auf Google Book Search gespeicherten Seiten eines Buches. Only works with Firefox. Required Greasemonkey add-on. via http://bit.ly/oGVl (tags: firefox googlebooks)
"Kulturomik" ist die quantitative Analyse menschlicher Kultur. Dank Google Books kann man jetzt verborgene Trends in Geschichte, Kultur und Sprache online entdecken. (tags: literatur googlebooks)
Google and five publishers said Thursday they are settling one of its long-running legal flaps over the media giants scanning of university library books without permission. The deal is a huge concession by Google, which up until now had maintained it had a fair-use right under copyright law and did not need permission from rights holders to scan the digital library of the future. (tags: googlebooks buch digitalisierung)
a site to study and discuss the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Here, you can browse and annotate the settlement, section-by-section. The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. The Public Index is led by Professor James Grimmelmann. The Public Index is made possible by a grant from Microsoft.
Alliance members fear the Google Book Search Settlement will restore access to millions of out-of-print books and will one day make Google a virtual digital library monopoly.... Google has been scanning the pages of those [orphan works] and others as part of its plan to bring a digital library and bookstore to computer screens across the United States.